23 a. Which is the easiest job? baby-sitter, dentist, footballer, teacher
b. The most boring? car park attendant, assembly line worker, shepherd, window cleaner
c. The most tiring? doctor, farmer, miner, top model d. The most useful? journalist, market researcher, nurse, postman
e. The worst? grave digger, prison warder, soldier, toilet cleaner
3. Dirty jobs?
Which of these organizations would you work for if you had little or no alternative? Rank them from 1 – 6 1 is the job that you prefer most.
a. A pharmaceutical company which tests its beauty products on animals. b. A multinational which trades with the governments of politically oppressed
people. c. An arms producer or a company whose products can be used for military
purposes. d. A fast food chain that opens ‘restaurants’ in beautiful squares in the old
quarters of towns. e. A nuclear power station.
f. A tobacco company. How honest were you in answering these questions? If you had no other
opportunities for getting a job, is there no way you would reconsider? How much is one really contributing to the problem by working for such companies?
6.3. Activity
You are an unmarried, male, 22-year-old immigrant to the United States. You were a taxicab driver in your country, and you came to the United States five months
ago to get a better job. however, it is very difficult to find a good job because you don’t have a university degree and your English is not good.
You are studying English three times a week at night in an adult school near your apartment. However, life is expensive You are spending about 1200 a month
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you brought with you is almost gone.
You must get a job this week you just got your Green Card. There are some jobs listed on the newspaper today.
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the jobs? In the class, find other participants that also apply for the same jobs as you. Make a group with them, and then discuss who will be the most suitable person to fill
in the position. Of course you have to promote your good qualities to win the job.
Unit 7: Neighborhood and Places
Giving Directions, Describing Favorite Places
7.1. Giving Directions: Review
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7.2. Language Notes
1. Prepositions of direction
in to, out of; on to, off;
up to, towards, away from; up, down;
along, through, between; across, round, past, over, under.
2. Expressing sequence in giving instructions
First you put a paper cup under the tap. After that you put your money in the machine, and then
you press the button …
3. Expressions for giving street directions
Turn leftright.
Take the first turning
on your lefton your right.
Keepgo straight on along this road.
Situational practice
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7.3. Discussions
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A young woman, called Kitty Genovese, was
walking along the streets of a middle-
class neighborhood in New York at 3.00 am,
when she was attacked. She screamed for help
and managed to escape. A few minutes later
her assailant caught her again and she
continued screaming for half an hour
whilst 38 neighbors watched transfixed
from their windows and did nothing. They
didn’t even call the police. Kitty died of
multiple stab wounds. In another town in
America, a man went to a garage sale and
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